Humanities By: Joe Cox Mrs. Strut 4th hr. What makes one exhibit the tendencies that define its existence? Is it the natural chemical balances and imbalances that one is born with? Or could it be the way they breathe in the life around them engrained in their mind from those who care for them. The age-old question regarding nature and nurture can be argued either way and has by countless learned and brilliant people. Examples are aplenty supporting both sides. But what does this mean form me? I ...

Oliver KontehPerspectives on Human Nature Prof. Kurt Frey Nature vs. Nurture For the past five weeks we have studied three different but influential people in our perspective on human nature class. They are Freud, Plato and Tzu. The main discussion between all of them is nature versus nurture. I will discuss the difference between nature and nurture and then I'll apply to each of these philosophers and how they react to it. When looked up in the dictionary the term nature means the universe and ...

The differences between boys and girls are the result from the combination between nature and nurture. These two elements not only build up someone's behavior but also have different kind of influences. Both elements cannot be separated because it played in different times and different situation. Since we cannot change or control our heredity, but we can change our environment, we still have a chance to helping our children in order to ensure that children get the best change to develop their i...

Position Paper: Nature vs. Nurture The controversy of nature vs. nurture has been going on for many years, and a decision has not yet been reached in which one is the most affective. Using the results of the countless tests done, everyday situations, and the twins experiment, I will prove that nature is a larger contributor to the outcome of our personalities than nurture. Firstly, many psychologists and Universities, such as Harvard, conducted countless test to determined which traits of our pe...

Nurture Versus Nature The question of what is the greatest factor in the development of human intelligence, sociability, interpersonal skills, and personality has been debated as long as modern humanity has had the capacity to wonder about it. Depending on the intellectual background or mindset of any individual asked, the answer will vary. Some social scientists and theorists argue in behalf of the effect of the environment in which a child is raised as the primary influence. Many of those most...

Nature vs. Nurture When we first started learning about the age old question of nature vs. nurture, I agreed with the concept of nature. I hated the idea of nurture, that no one is truly unique. I was against that. I liked to think that everyone is individual. But then as I thought more about it, I started to not like the idea of Nature. That we dont have a choice in who we are, that it has all been decided for us. I was thinking about a lot of things that could affect how someone is. There are ...

Nature / Nurture or Both! The controversy over what determines who we are, whether it is Nature (heredity, our biological make up) or Nurture (our environment) is taking a new shape. Through the past decades, psychologists have developed different theories to explain the characteristics of human-beings; how we feel, think and behave. Usually, these theories were one directional in the nature / nurture question. Today, a new approach to deal with this question is emerging. This new approach finds...

The Nature Approach There are two ways in which sociologists study human behavior. The Nature approach and the Nurture approach. The Nature approach has many claims. One is; the whole universe is deterministic and follows unavoidable sequences of cause, leading to effect. What this generally means is that all the events in the world that occur are pre-determined. By what you ask? Nature (laws of physics, for example). Another claim of the Nature Approach is that man is like a puppet on strings o...

Psychology as defined in Segal and Kegan's book on psychology is the "systematic study of behavior and mental process - including thought and emotion - and the factors that influence them". The behavior aspect of the definition deals with the physical actions that us humans undergo, commencing from the second we wake up from sleep every morning. On the other hand, the mental and emotional processes deal with our thoughts and feelings; the way we feel, think of ideas, and interpret them. Also inc...

Nature vs. Nurture Shaping Human Behavior The debate between those who believe human beings are born with certain innate qualities and those who believe we are the product of our environment (Nature vs. Nurture) has raged for centuries. "For the better part of the 20th century, most literature supported the nurture side of the debate". Advocates of the 'nurture' theory emphasize the important role played by acquired and learned behavior from the environment. In support of this theory are several...

When I was a young child, people always used to squabble over whether I was more like my mother or my father. Some people swore that not only was the physical resemblance to my mother similar, but our personalities were eerily identical. Others argued that my father and I were carbon copies of each other, right down to our Scorpio wit. Then later in life I found myself assimilated more and more to my best friend, who I hadn't grown up with, but had begun to spend every waking minute with during ...